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Defendant Austin Harrouff appeared in court Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, during a defense motion hearing at the Martin County Courthouse in downtown Stuart. The hearing concerned the potential release of an unbroadcast interview Harrouff made with the "Dr. Phil" TV show in 2016.(Photo: JEREMIAH WILSON/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS)

MARTIN COUNTY — Austin Harrouff’s unaired "Dr. Phil" interview is expected to be released Tuesday.

One of his defense attorneys, Nellie King, filed a notice of an appeal, or a petition for a writ of certiorari, just before 1 p.m. Monday with the 4th District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach, said court officials. The filing also included a motion asking the court to extend the stay Circuit Judge Lawrence Mirman wouldn't extend.

However, the court denied the appeal, according to an order issued late Monday.

"The defendant has no privacy interest in the interview, as he gave it for publication on television," according to the order.

It all was an effort by the defense to stop the state from releasing the video by 8:30 a.m. Tuesday as Mirman had ordered.

During an emergency hearing Friday, Mirman refused to extend the stay of a court order issued last week to release an interview the 19-year-old Jupiter resident gave the TV show.

Harrouff’s lawyers then took the matter to the 4th District Court of Appeal, seeking a ruling that would override Mirman and keep a stay in place past Tuesday.

Harrouff, who was attending Florida State University, is accused of killing a local couple — John Stevens III, 59, and Michelle Mishcon, 53 — in their garage on Southeast Kokomo Lane and injuring their neighbor Jeffrey Fisher on Aug. 15.

Harrouff faces two counts of first-degree murder with a weapon, attempted first-degree murder with a weapon and burglary of a dwelling with an assault or battery while armed. He remains at the Martin County Jail without bail.